GENERATIONS : FAMILY PHOTO GALLERY

Kayla Rees


My big sister and little sister - a 20 year gap between the two. Mum and Dad worked day and night shifts and they all insisted we wore English clothes growing up! So this is us! Hair cuts and dungarees in 1989? Winson green born.


My big sister My little sister and me
1989, 32 blackbird St, Birmingham, B16
32 blackbird St, Birmingham, B16, 1989

Rosemarie Stephenson


The first photo is of my mom Jean Gunter and myself (Rosemarie Stephenson). We had lots of holidays, mostly in caravans, sometimes chalets but always in the UK. The second photo is me aged 1 year 9 months and was taken in Rhyl 1961. My Father’s car, in the background was a Reliant Regal. Possibly a Mk IV, 3 wheeler.



1961, Rhyl, UK
Rhyl, UK, 1961

Nina Mildenhall


Kathleen Ryan came from Southern Ireland and John Beckfoŕd came from Westmoreland Jamaica. They found they had a lot in common when they came to Birmingham. The welcome to both sides was hard when they arrived in England. They both worked all there life even after retirement and both stayed together through the good and the bad in life. Sadly John passed away in 2011 and Kathleen passed in 2014, leaving two children and four grandchildren, passing on the respect for people of colour and religion.


Kathleen Ryan and John Beckford
1959, St Francis Church, Hockley, Birmingham
St Francis Church, Hockley, Birmingham, 1959

Jo Wheeler


My Grandparents - possibly an engagement photo


Rowland Wheeler and Frances Maud Wheeler nee Postlethwaite. Their 1915 wedding picture is also in the gallery.
Approx 1915, Bordesley Green/Small Heath, Birmingham
Bordesley Green/Small Heath, Birmingham, Approx 1915

Dawn Searles


Mums 16th Birthday


Mum 2nd left, cousin Michael 3rd left, Uncle John 4th right, Grandad 3rd right, Gt Nan 4th right, Aunt Dot 2nd right and Nan 1st right. Two other ladies unknown.
1958, In the parlour of 234 Lodge Road, Winson Green, Birmingham.
In the parlour of 234 Lodge Road, Winson Green, Birmingham., 1958

Peter Woodhall


Marriage of Edwin (Ted) Woodhall to Barbara McNaughton in 1950. The bridesmaid in Patricia Ann Cheshire. The man holding the baby is Ted's brother, Jack Woodhall and the baby is me Peter Woodhall. On Jack's right is his wife Lucy and on his left his brother Bryan. To the right of the groom is Emily Woodhall (nee Bryan), the Mother of the groom. The picture is special as it is only at weddings that so many family members are in one place at the same time for a photo. Family lived in Gravelly Hill and Erdington at the time, although the marriage was registered in Sutton Coldfield. I'm not sure of the church.


Wedding of Edwin Woodhall and Barbara McNaughton
1950, Sutton Coldfield
Sutton Coldfield, 1950

Anita Richards


Living life at the Canonball Jazz club in Digbeth.


Elizabeth Kinsella and Anita Mason
1984, Canonball Jazz Club, Digbeth
Canonball Jazz Club, Digbeth, 1984

Graham Knight


The White family moved to West Heath in 1953-1956 from Ladywood having first moved to Birmingham from South Warwickshire, where they were farmers, in the 1860s. In 1948 Ruby White (3rd from left back row) married Leonard Knight (taking the photo thus not in it), whose family had been agricultural workers in Suffolk since Anglo Saxon times. They moved to Turves Green in 1953, 3 months after the birth of their son, Graham, who is shown being held by Stan Ogidel. Stan was originally from Poland and settled in Birmingham after World War 2 with his his wife, Pearl, who was Ruby’s twin. The twins were children of Dick and Josie White, 2nd and 3rd from right, as was Dick, their eldest son (at right) and Joan (2nd from left). To Ruby’s left is Rose Page, Dick Jr’s 1st wife. The two older boys are Roger and Graham Hurcombe, sons of Ruby and Len’s next door neighbours.


Stan Ogidel, Joan White, Ruby Knight, Rose White, Dick White, Dick White Jr, Graham Knight, Roger Hurcombe, Graham Hurcombe, Josie White and Pearl Ogidel.
1954, In the back garden of 45 Turves Green, West Heath in Northfield, Birmingham, B31
In the back garden of 45 Turves Green, West Heath in Northfield, Birmingham, B31, 1954

Pat Edwards


4 Generations of the Edwards Family


Dorothy Webb, Susan Edwards, John Edwards, Synthia Edwards, Pat Edwards
1968, Canterbury
Canterbury, 1968

Peggy Livingstone


From left to right: Peggy Livingstone (now aged 99), Elaine Easthope (now aged 74), Kate Jones (now aged 43), and Chynna Langford (now aged 25).


Peggy Livingstone, Elaine Easthope, Kate Jones, and Chynna Langford
1948 - 1996, Wednesbury
Wednesbury, 1948 - 1996

Sameena Parvez Abbasi


This is a picture of my Dad (on the left), his parents and siblings, taken at Southend on Sea in 1971 before moving to Birmingham in 1972.


My grandparents and father and his siblings
1971, Southend-on-Sea
Southend-on-Sea, 1971

Maya Rai


Roger (pictured left aged 3 in 1940) was born and raised in Wolverhampton and lived and worked there all his life. Nicola (middle, aged 5 on her first day at primary school) and Megan (right) were born in Willenhall and have lived in their since birth. Nicola married Alfred, a British born man of Fijian decent, and had a child, Megan, born in 1993.


Rodger Wilkinson (now aged 84), Nicola Rai (now aged 52), and Megan Gosnell (now aged 28)
1944 - 1993, Wolverhampton and Willenhall
Wolverhampton and Willenhall, 1944 - 1993
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